Sunday, March 29, 2009

It's hard to determine if the GM CEO resigning at Mr. Obama's behest would be socialist or fascist. Oh, that's right. Even in European and Canadian socialist states the heads of state don't tend to remove CEOs. Guess it must be fascism.

I guess it's really not a shock. The Federal Government really doesn't have much power under the Constitution. Even though we seem as a society more and more comfortable tossing that document to the wind, the Feds have always used money as leverage for control.

I'm just a bit surprised to see the policy of control through money to be extended to private companies. I shouldn't be, but it's a disturbing potential beginning to a real change to our economic system, and I don't think it's for the better.

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"Government can not inject a single dollar into the economy that it hasn't first taken out of the economy." -Tom McClintock

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles. -Jeff Cooper, "The Art of the Rifle"

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.-Alexis de Tocqueville

The Founders based the Constitution not on contemporary political theory of the 1700's, but on the immutable principles of human nature.